Would you transport your pregnant sister in a cage?

This is really the only question one has to ask to make a judgement call on whether it was right or wrong for farmer Goliat Erasmus from Cradock to transport farmworker Linda Stenekamp on the back of his bakkie, if you were still in doubt.

Defenders of Erasmus who are trying to make a rainbow moment out of this are either completely naive about power relationships in a country where black people were subjected to oppressive rule for over 300 years, or unwilling to confront the problematic image of a black woman inside a cage on the back of a white man’s bakkie.

If you are buying into the narrative that Erasmus is actually a victim of his kindness and that it was Stenekamp’s choice to sit in the cage because black people "like the wind and stuff" (according to the highly problematic narrator of this interview), ask yourself only this one question: would you transport your pregnant sister or mother or friend in a cage on the back of a bakkie?